Maybe back to "wait for it"? In any case, it's looking like there's a good chance we'll get to see Randall's interpretation for all the various ideas on how this flood might play out on the water itself.

Valarya wrote:Wow, BlitzGirl predicted my decree and future-ninja'd me on it WHILE I WAS TYPING.

Also, I missed my 600th post last NP. Someone give me a cake!

Here, have a cupcake:

Spoiler:

Did I do it right? Guys?

...

anyone?

HAL9000 wrote:I find it simultaneously fascinating and disturbing that the most profound things I've read in the past months I have encountered in or been led to by an internet forum thread about a webcomic.

An average person requires a minimum of 2-4 liters of water per day. For 40 people, this means 80-160 liters per day. For five days, 400-800 liters, or 400-800 kilograms of water (roughly 900-1800 lbs). 14-28 cubic feet of water. The size is feasible (3 feet cubed) but the weight is substantial. Perhaps stick figures consume less water.

La Petite will say "How much longer will the sea rise? Do we have enough water/food/molpy chow?"

Yup, some time between np3067:15 and np3067:25.Now, is this on purpose and will it change again, or was it a mistake (and the GLR has spies in the OTT)? Probably the latter. (Ninja'd by a BlitzGirl/edo combination.)

rvloon wrote:How stereotypical! You take one molpying British musician and the women drop like flies. I get it. I am a 44-year old nerd, glasses, strange accent, Dutch, no pizzazz. No MRQM. Story of my life. Which goes on.

This is why I made the disclaimer that the yappo-love-club exists, for me, because of his creativity, charm and wit. That all happened well before I heard him. I really don't want his amazing Cueball performance cheapened by assuming he only got it for the accent. He deserves the part because he did a damn good audition.

Aw, thanks And I wish people IRL thought I had charm and wit Alas, no real life MYQM, or even a DYQM (Dating Yappo Queue Mob) for that matter...And Happy 600th! Have some cupcake cupcakes!

b2bomberkrh wrote:

BlitzGirl wrote:She might just be raising her fist in a gesture of defiance.

"Red...the blood of angry men..."

Perhaps La Petite's other name is Gavroche.

Eventually we're gonna have the entirety of Les Mis ottified aren't we! We've already got ottifications of Bring Him Home, Stars and One Day More... eventually we'll have the whole thing and we'll have to stage it!

ETA - LaPetite: "Hehe, when I hold my finger in front of my eyes and defocus, it looks like there's two of them!"

Yup, some time between np3067:15 and np3067:25.Now, is this on purpose and will it change again, or was it a mistake (and the GLR has spies in the OTT)? Probably the latter. (Ninja'd by a BlitzGirl/edo combination.)

I just realized... he doesn't have to have figured a way out of this; he doesn't have to worry about leaving any plotholes. Any tiny miniscule problem with anything with the OTC can be detected, analyzed, and multible solutions worked out without him having to lift a finger (except to draw)...

Spoiler:

It's us!!!

Remember waiting a half hour for one darkening pixel? Pepperidge Farms remembers...Note To Blitzers:It is advisable NOT to go past page 1130 until you've seen up to frame 2900 (Geekwagon Numbering). A lot is happening, and really, you do not want to skip ahead at that point.

ucim wrote:re. haiku: My understanding is that it is supposed to be two contrasting ideas, expressed in seven (Japanese) symbols: 2, 3, 2, and there is supposed to be a reference to seasons, or a season of the year as part of the metaphor. The 5,7,5 syllable thing is an adaptation.

Actually, no, the 5/7/5 thing is the original. The difference is that in Japanese these are not 5, 7 and 5 syllables, but morae. It's a subtle difference: a mora is not an entire syllable, it's just one sound.Nearly all Japanese syllables are made of only one mora, and each mora is a symbol in the "syllabary" (though it's more of a "morabary"), called kana. こ = ko, し = shi, etc. There's one exception, the kana ん, which is pronounced "n" or "m" and have to appear after another mora: こん is "kon", which is a syllable made of two morae.

So a haiku has 5/7/5 morae, with most morae being syllables in themselves, except for ん.It's not related to the number of symbols. Kanji, the Chinese characters used in Japanese, often represent more than one mora. And you can use more than one kana to represent one mora because of compounds ("sho" is written しょ, "shi" + little "o") and "long vowels" (こう is "kou", that is a "ko" with the o pronunced slightly longer).

NetWeasel wrote:I just realized... he doesn't have to have figured a way out of this; he doesn't have to worry about leaving any plotholes. Any tiny miniscule problem with anything with the OTC can be detected, analyzed, and multible solutions worked out without him having to lift a finger (except to draw)...

Spoiler:

It's us!!!

If we had to, we could even help with the drawing part. But that would be a measure of last resort.

edo wrote:"Cut off" is weird.... shouldn't they try to do something to reach the coast?

for the decree: "....."

It means, I think, that there is no dry-shod route left to high ground; they're at (or near) a local maximum. So they have to stay in their raft. And pole faster, I guess, unless they can figure out a better means of propulsion. (If they get too far away from the rim of the Med, they're in trouble.)

Drifting on our raft;no way now to walk to shore.Hope for friendly winds.

Steve Ward replied to my email about the possibilities of a tsunami-like wave at the site of Cuegan's village. (Yes, I sent him a copy of the map.. )

> would the increase in depth be steady as a function of time or would there be inertial surges and "tsunami-ish" effects?

I'm not sure what 'tsunami-ish' effects are exactly, but to get tsunami waves you need standing water andan excitation that is fairly quick - a few seconds to a few minutes.

In your map the Med Sea is nearly dry, so there's not much water to 'tsunami' in.

Too, the breach is 1000km from yoursite which is on fairly flat ground. Although the inflow is 70,000 Niagara falls, it is far away and the Med basin ispretty huge. The flow would look like a river at that distance.

Even as it fills, I don't see the influx making waves. Does Niagara Falls make a continuous tsunami waves? No.

In my opinion the rise in water would be fairly steady like the video shows.

Now the rate at which the flood covers the sea bottom depends on its slope. Inundation rates of the dry ground would be fastest over the flattest places early on.You might have to pack up and hike many miles per day to stay dry.

Sorry to whomever made the connection: I agree, Hairdo (Hairdid?) 's hair is similar to LaPetite...and (my connection) she's the mommy! Also, as is custom, Hairdid doesn't wear a hat inside. But outside, a beret!

Ximenez wrote:As a foreign English speaker (and not very good at that), I can relate to Farrah Hairdo Beanie. Painfully so.

When you learn English from books, you get a distorted view of word usage and few, if any, clues about pronunciation. Also, it's somewhat hard to understand native speakers when they speak fast (or on top of each other, like in the present frame), so there will/should be difficulties on that front.

Hehe, funny name.

*ahem* I didn't know a Spanish speaker would think English speakers spoke fast. I always thought Spanish was exceedingly fast (due to its uniform grammar and pronunciation). Thanks for the insight!

So, Cuegan spend a day or two playing in the sand, then leave (unannounced?) their tribe for a couple of weeks, coming back to find the rest split into two groups. Each group has been industrious enough to build rafts. This would imply some type of organization and direction. However, when Cuegan appears, it seems like Cueball has assumed a position of leadership with the others asking him for direction and him not shirking from that task.

This is odd on two levels - 1) in his dealing with Megan, she took the alpha position. It was her insistance and prodding that got them to the Beanies. 2) LaPetite seems to have taken charge in building one raft and getting her group to relative safety. We don't know much about the second group but someone had enough initiative to gather materials and built a raft.

It doesn't look like there are any elders in the group. There are two women (I assume) with their hair tied in buns. This suggests to me (perhaps wrongly) that they are older but neither they, nor any of the men have stepped forward.

Except Cueball.

I don't know how or why, but he has become the de facto leader of the tribe. Unless Megan or La Petite gives him a dope slap (thwap!) and asserts her authority.

"It's only funny until someone loses an eye, then it's still funny but they can only see it in 2-D."

gnetwerker wrote:An average person requires a minimum of 2-4 liters of water per day. For 40 people, this means 80-160 liters per day. For five days, 400-800 liters, or 400-800 kilograms of water (roughly 900-1800 lbs). 14-28 cubic feet of water. The size is feasible (3 feet cubed) but the weight is substantial. Perhaps stick figures consume less water.

La Petite will say "How much longer will the sea rise? Do we have enough water/food/molpy chow?"

The rising of the seas are supposed to be a matter of days...Remember the rule -- 3 minutes, 3 days, 3 weeks -- air, water, food.

The rain should be coming soon, which will probably really freak these people out....

Remember waiting a half hour for one darkening pixel? Pepperidge Farms remembers...Note To Blitzers:It is advisable NOT to go past page 1130 until you've seen up to frame 2900 (Geekwagon Numbering). A lot is happening, and really, you do not want to skip ahead at that point.